On the policy side, UCS suggests that state lawmakers revisit their open records laws to "ensure that they include appropriate exemptions but are not so broad as to compromise accountability".
For instance, the Council of Institutional Investors, a group of pension funds and other institutional investors controlling some $3 trillion, recently said that initial public offerings by companies like Alibaba, First Data, Groupon, LinkedIn, Square and Zynga "fundamentally compromise accountability to shareholders and entrench insiders".
Young democracies, in particular, often suffer from unstable party systems, lack of programmatic political platforms, deep inequality, ethnic tensions, and pervasive clientelism that compromise accountability [ 13, 14].
They can be exclusionary, favour established interests (Rhodes 1997), compromise public accountability, and threaten public values and the capacity of governments to govern (Davidson and Lockwood 2008).
Critics argue that governments and international institutions have compromised their own accountability mechanisms by entering into partnerships with private sector actors [ 16].
The panel's detailed report shows how vulnerable victims, survivors and their families are when transparency and accountability are compromised".
In South Africa, the lack of accountability has compromised the envisaged role of ward councilors in addressing the needs of the community.
In the absence of elementary safeguards, they say, consumers who bought a product to help victims have no assurance it will; charities cannot in the end guarantee that they will get anything, and the enforcement of accountability is seriously compromised.
Trump accepted Sessions' joint recommendation with newly confirmed Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who has seriously compromised his own integrity and accountability through this letter and process.
"They facilitate the compromise and accountability that are essential to the governing of a large, diverse nation," he said.
The media, and particularly the internet, have also got a little freer.The Singaporeans argue that they have the perfect compromise between accountability and efficiency.
